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ADVERTISING FRAMEL N0. 390,473. Patented Oct. 2, 1888.

\/ENTO :R- George G. Green.

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UNITED STATES Parana? tries.

GEORGE GREEN, OF WOODBURY, NEW JERSEY.

ADVERTISING-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,473, dated October 2, 1888.

' Application filed January 12, 1888. Serial No. 260,487. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that I, GEORGE G. GREEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Voodbury, in the county of Gloucester and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising-Frames; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the face of the advertising frame. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the rear of the same. Fig. 3 is a section on the diagonal line 00 00, passing through the frame and glass or mirror.

This advertising frame belongs more particularly to that class which is designed for indoor use, and is consequently made of avariety of materials which will keep their color and shape when protected from the weather, and, in combination, will produce a very novel and beautiful effect, so that the frame will not only be admirably adapted to call attention to the name, article, or goods it advertises, but, by reason of its intrinsic beauty and eostliness, will, in a very marked degree, attract atten tion to itself, and therefore more emphatically answer its main and original purpose. Therefore the novelty in the present instance consists in the construction of the several parts and in their combination as a whole, all as will now be more fully set forth and explained, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawlugs.

In. the drawings, A. denotes the external frame, which may be of any desired shape. The rectangular form now shown is most preferred, on account of cheapness iumaking and ease in packing and general durability; but any'suitable shape or form may be used. In the back of this part of the frame, which has a rabbet, a, all around, as usual, are fitted and secured the triangular pieces of wood B, which constitute the inner portion of the frame, and so as to leave a rectangular opening between their inner edges and in the center of the frame, which shall have its several angles against the several inner sides of the external part of the frame. The front of each of the triangular pieces B is covered with brightlyoolored velvet, silk, satin, or any likefabric or material, 0, its edges being suitably secured to said pieces so as to be held firmly in place.

In the rectangular opening in the center of the frame is so placed a mirror, D, face side front, that its sides shall fit snugly and closely against the inner rabbeted sides or edges, b, of the triangular pieces B, and is here held fast by nails or in any suitable or ordinary way. It will be observed that the glass so placed will have its several angles against or toward the several sides of the frame of the sign. On the face of the glass may be placed any lettering or symbol to indicate the name, article, or goods to be advertised, but so as not to prevent the mirror from being used as such; but it is usually desirable that the face should be left clear. On or in the face of each triangula'r piece of fabric or material C may be placed the name or names of the individual, article, or goods to be advertised. For instance, the word August may be placed in or on the fabric in the upper left hand corner, and Flower in the opposite corner, while in the lower left-hand corner may appear the Word German and opposite it the word Syrup. These words are preferably made of silk or other suitable material of a color different from the fabric, so as to produce by contrast a vivid effect and worked in by needle; but the more detail of this can be varied in many ways, and, if desired, instead of needlework, the names may be put on by painting, or in any other well-known way of marking on such fabric as is desired for the present uses.

The frame can be hung up by cord, wire, or rings, or simply placed on its lower edge and tipped back against the wall for support. It can be displayed in a shop or any other place of business, and in many instances it will be placed in the show-windows of shops.

Of course in the more detail of carrying out the present invention there may be a wide variety of changes in the shape of several parts which enter into its structure, as well as in their combination together, which, being merely matters of taste and mechanical convenience, will not in any degree change the nature or scope of the present invention.

Having now described my invention, whatI tend centrally to the respective sides of the wish to secure by Letters Patent isframe and space on each side allowed for ad- In an advertising-frame, the combination of vertising purposes.

the external frame, A, rabbeted on its inner In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in 5 edges, the triangular pieces B, fitted within it presence of two witnesses.

and rabbeted at b on the inner ed e the fabric or material C, secured upon said pieces B, and GEORGE GREEN the mirror D, fitting into the rabbets b, where WVitnesses:

by the mirror is centrally disposed within the GEO. H. BARKER,

10 frame and the several angles of the mirror eX- MpW. NEWTON. 

